He said the ministry had taken several steps, including the establishment of the graduates' retraining training scheme as well as providing feedback to the Higher Education and the Education Ministries, to ensure courses are in line with those required by the job market.

To the original question by Tan Sri Dr Ting Chew Peh (BN-Gopeng), Abdul Rahman said 20,217 graduates registered with the ministry's Job Clearing System were still unemployed as at June 12.

The breakdown showed:-

UiTM 3,278 (16.2%) - highest number of employed graduates

UUM 1,532 (7.6%)

private institutions of higher learning 1,217 (6%)

UTM 1,147(5.7%)

UKM 971 (4.8%)

UPM 919 (4.5%)

other public institutions of higher learning 840 (4.2%)

UM 531 (2.6%)

USM 505 (2.5%)

UMS 371 (1.8%)

UIA 358 (1.8%)

foreign graduates 342 (1.7%)

Unimas 174 (0.9%)

UPSI 39 (0.2%)

Others 7,993 (39.5%)

Abdul Rahman said the breakdown according to job sector showed ICT with the highest number of unemployed graduates with 3,942 (19.5%) yet to find jobs.

Abdul Rahman said apart from the job clearing system, other measures had also been taken by the government to reduce the number of unemployed graduates in the country.

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Survey the views of private sector employers, is this such a surprise?

The answer you will most certainly get is, NO!

Why?

We REAP what we SOW.

The failure of our public education system is symptomatic of what is also happening to our civil service. It will take a herculean effort and massive mindset change to reverse the decline that has steadily eroded the respectability of both institutions in the eyes of the public.

No, it is not about merely throwing more money at this problem. That is just an excuse to distract the mind from the real issues and at the same time, make a quick buck out of the sorry situation.

It is about being HONEST with ourselves about why we have ended up with such a mess.

It is about doing the right thing for the survival of the very thing you have been championing all along.

You have done just the opposite. It has been a slow, agonising, strangling and choking way to love your people to death.

I think the statistics are skewed. The numbers are from those who registered with the Government's Job Clearing System. What percentage of private sector and overseas grads do you think registered compared with those from the public sector institutions? After all, didn't the Government mention a figure of 85K unemployed grads not too long ago (I think in Najib's Mandarin requirement is discriminatory) compared to the 20K figure mentioned here?

I think the statistics are skewed. The numbers are from those who registered with the Government's Job Clearing System. What percentage of private sector and overseas grads do you think registered compared with those from the public sector institutions? After all, didn't the Government mention a figure of 85K unemployed grads not too long ago (I think in Najib's Mandarin requirement is discriminatory) compared to the 20K figure mentioned here?

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